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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780767045001
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0767045009
Label: A&E Home Video
Manufacturer: A&E Home Video
Number Of Items: 3
Publisher: A&E Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: April 09, 2002
Running Time: 200 minutes
Sales Rank: 13333
Studio: A&E Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: April 07, 2002
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
Shackleton is not a biopic of the great Anglo-Irish explorer but a dramatization of the failed trans-Antarctic expedition of 1914-1916. As written and directed by Charles Sturridge (Longitude), the production, filmed on real ice floes in Greenland, stays remarkably close to the facts, capturing the look of the surviving expedition photos by Frank Hurley (collected in the book South with Endurance) with great fidelity. Kenneth Branagh makes no attempt at an authentic accent but otherwise gives a powerful impression of a most commanding personality. When the expedition ship Endurance became locked in the Antarctic ice, Shackleton vowed to bring every man home alive, and against virtually impossible odds, including a 700-mile journey in an open boat through some of the worst seas in the world, he did just that. This superlative miniseries realizes the story with production values and cinematography that would not disgrace a big-budget feature (South, Hurley's 1919 silent movie featuring some motion-picture footage from the expedition, is also available on video). Intense physical drama, strong performances, and Adrian Johnston's fine score combine here to deeply moving effect, marred only a little by a rushed conclusion. With Roland Huntford, author of the definitive Shackleton biography, as production advisor, this easily stands as the benchmark for all future comparable films. --Gary S. Dalkin
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Shakleton...
An okay movie loosely based on Ernest Shackleton's doomed voyage to the bottom of the world. The movie does its best to stick with his life from his diaries.
This is a set of 3 dvds that give you a biography Shackleton, discovery channel of Anartica, and the movie itself.
Rating:  - A Superb Collection
This is an absolutely superb collection. The A&E Shackleton, featuring Kenneth Branagh, is beautifully directed, powerfully acted and faithful to the facts of what happened. The danger here is that the adventure elements could be lost and the grinding facts of hunger, cold and life on the ice floe dominate. Without understating the challenges, the film captures all of the constituent elements--Shackleton's personal conflicts (and loves, both licit and illicit), the financial ruin of his brother ... Read More
Rating: - Superb historical drama with some great acting
The story of Ernest Shackleton's grandiosely-named Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition is a pretty amazing one, which I will not summarise here as other reviewers have already done so. Yet there is another story to this film - how one man fought against self-doubt, the hostility of the authorities and the indifference of the public, ultimately to rise triumphant out of a difficult situation and prove his true worth. I'm talking, ladies and gents, about the acting career of Kenneth Branagh.
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Rating:  - Educational, but not for Education
This DVD was well produced and tells the exciting story of Shackleton's fatefull Antarctic expedition very acurately. However, as a teacher, I must warn that without a lot of careful editing and fast-forwarding, this film is not immediately classroom appropriate. Definitely pre-watch for parts with language and one gruesome scene involving the amputation of a sailor's toes. I did show some appropriate scenes to my students and they really enjoyed seeing everything they'd read in Jennifer Armstrong's ... Read More
Rating: - Fact or Fiction ? I pass on this Shackleton
Having seen various other versions of Shackletons' expeditions I was surprised that this one portrayed Shackleton as a selfish, shallow womanizer. Perhaps I'm not British enough to find his dalliances amusing or interesting. The "manly, man's man" comes across as one incapable of holding any moral high ground and becomes quite oddly subdued when confronted with his very unintimidating wife concerning his unfaithfulness. He seems devoted above all else to self interest. The mighty Shackleton it seems didn't ... Read More
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